The New "American Decline Of" Dynasty

Article focuses on the main ideas and the strategic implications of thenew generation of “the theory of American declining (the fifth wave ofthe theory of American declining). Scholars who hold on the theory ofAmerican declining believe that, Compared with its hegemony eraand the so called “unipolar moment”, America undoubtedly is in declingnow. There are many reasons for its decling，both internal causes likestrategic mistakes, economic policy mistakes and partisanship, and theexternal causes such as the rise of other nations, both the proximatecauses like the financial crisis, and the remote causes such as theoverstretched of big power.. The absolute decline of the United Statesmeans the basic capacity of superpower of the United States has beendamaged, and the relative decline of the United States indicates thatthere are new changes on the American strategic environment. Resolutefrom that, America will adjust its strategic objectives and strategic means.Given the options of the representatives of the new generation of thetheory of America decline, four kinds of grand strategy are on thetable——institution locking strategy, reinventing norms strategy, offshorebalancing strategy and the remodeling the balance of powers strategy.